Tommy was an English war prisoner who spent most of World War 2 with the Senger family in Zeyervorderkampen. We would love to hear from him or his family.
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Does anyone know Tommy?
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Zeyer ev. Kirche Documents
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010This image gallery contains images of all the Senger family records we have been able to identify thus far, and have available for publication. As you will note, some of the documents are a ‘bit difficult’ to read.
Chelyabinsk ITL (Gulag)
Sunday, January 24th, 2010This write-up is my effort to document the circumstances and images surrounding the Gulag complex to which Frieda Senger was assigned and interned after World War 2 by the Soviets.
English:
Chelyabinsk was the location of a Soviet Gulag. Chelyabinsk ITL (Work Improvement Camp) was in existence from November 1941 until October 1951. At its height, it held 15,400 persons who were employed building a smelter used for Industrial, Highway, Civil and Residential construction, as well as in open-cast mining.
Additionally there was a Prisoner of War Camp #68 for German POWs in Chelyabinsk. Severely ill POWs were treated in POW Hospital 5882. A German POW mass grave was found about 12 km (8 miles) East of the city.
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Frieda Senger -Suchdienst & Soviet Records
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Today when I arrived home a letter from the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz- Suchdienst awaited me. I have to admit the contents were, for me extremely exciting! The only challenge I have with the documents is that three of the four pages are in Russian.
Perhaps a kind reader is willing to help me understand the Russian text. (download Docs)
Albert Senger
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
It pleases me beyond words to say that I have successfully identified the grave of my Great Uncle and made certain that his grave stone in the battlefields of WW1 France is now updated and complete.
Were it not for the wonderful help of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge this would never have been possible. However, with their initial work and my good fortune in finding Albert’s birth record in the Zeyer ev. Kirche; we have made certain that Albert is fully identified and honored.
In October I received this note:
From: ilka.borowski@volksbund.de
To: mark@eirenicon.org
Subject: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Albert Senger, + 03.12.1914 – Vg.Nr. 847.278
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:28:57 +0100Hallo Mark,
kurz möchte ich Ihnen noch mitteilen, dass es sich bei dem von Ihnen genannten Datum 27.05.1888 um den Tag der Taufe handelt. Als Geburtsdatum ist im Kirchenbuch der 31. März angegeben.
Mit freundlichem Gruss/best regards
Ilka Borowski
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Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
Werner Hilpert-Str- 2 34112 Kassel
Tel.: 05617009169 Fax : 05617009246http://www.volksbund.de
Today on their website you can see the following record:
Zum Gedenken
Nachname: Senger
Vorname: Albert
Dienstgrad: Reservist
Geburtsdatum: 27.05.1888
Geburtsort: Zeyervorderkampen
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 03.12.1914
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Albert Senger ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Noyers-Pont-Maugis (Frankreich). Endgrablage: Block B Grab 2148
Es freut mich sehr dass dies fuer mein Ohr-Onkel geschaft ist. Vielleicht ruehrt er jetzt ein bischen besser.(It pleases me to know that this was accomplished for my Great Uncle. Perhaps he can rest a bit more peacefully.)
I will now try to do the same for his brother and my Uncle Adolph…
Any idea where Zeyer’s early ev. Kirche records might be found?
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Hello all!
I have what is for me a riddle. I know that before 1774 Zeyer had a Church, but it held no records. Does anyone know which, if any, Elbing Lutheran Church may have held the records for births, deaths and weddings? The main Lutheran Churches in Elbing seem to have been Heilige drei Koenige, Sankt Marien, Heiliger Leichnahm, Sakt Annen, and Sankt Paulus; does anyone know which might hold the correct LDS microfilm archive?
Any help is most appreciated!
Hallo Leute!
Habe eine (fuer mich, unerlosbar) Frage: ich weiss dass es erst ab 1774 ein unabhaengige evangelische Kirche in Zeyer gab. Wusste es jemand, welcher Elbinger Kirche verantwortlich fuer die Taufe-/Heirats-/Todesregister den Gebiet Zeyer/Zeyerniederkampen vor 1774 war? Ich finde so fuenf evangelische Kirchen: Heilige drei Koenige, Sankt Marien, Heiliger Leichnahm, Sakt Annen, und Sankt Paulus; weiss aber nicht welche LDS Mikrofilme wahrscheinlich die richtige sind.
Ich freue mich sehr auf ihre Hilfe!
…mark
Senger Family Lands & Possesions
Monday, December 21st, 2009The Senger family were neither rich nor famous. They were hard working German farmers who tilled the soil and built the land (much like their forebears before them did in Holland). Richard Senger, at the outset of World War 2, was also an owner of the Kaeserei in Zeyervorderkampen (I do not know if he had other co-owners, perhaps one of our readers can help clear that up).
Below you will find images of the location of the Richard Senger family farm and business. (more…)
The Sengers -1920 to 1944
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Richard Senger was a successful German farmer in West Prussia. He worked and cared for his family’s homestead with the help of his wife and children, and his brother Rudolf; the homestead had been in the Senger family since about 1893. Their farm was located on the banks of the Nogat River in Zeyervorderkampen (Kreis Grosses Werder). (more…)
Richard Senger- The Long Road
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009In late winter of 1944/45, the Senger’s farm was taken by advancing Russian troops, their furniture and possessions were stolen, their lives unalterably change. The rest of the village of Zeyervorderkampen was destroyed during the invasion and immediate time thereafter. Ultimately, the Senger farm was left as the sole ‘undamaged’ farm in Zeyervorderkampen; it was given to a Polish family. It was no longer the Senger family farm and lands. Retribution was never offered by the invading countries and it was not accepted by Richard when it was offered by the German government. There was simply no compensation adequate to cover the loss of the Senger family lands. Ultimately, the German government did provide Richard a pension for both his WW1 and WW2 service. (more…)
Frieda Senger- Post WW2 Gulag
Sunday, September 6th, 2009As the Russians invaded West Prussia, towards the end of World War 2, they rounded up abled bodied Germans to ‘work’ in their Gulags. These Germans (some three million) were shipped by train to forced labor camps in the far East. Frieda Senger, along with her friend and neighbor, Edith Ebel, were among those shipped by rail into the Russian Gulags; in her case trip was to prisons some 1700 miles or 2700 kms east. She, like many others, was deported from her and her husband’s lands (which were now in the hands of the Russians) and forced into slavery; she was not seen or heard from again for some 2 and one half years.
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